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CUBBERLEY USED BOOK SALES
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Saturday December 10
 Main Room Members' Early Sale 9am - 11am
Main Room General Sale 11am - 4pm
Bargain Room 9:30am - 4pm
Children's Room 10am - 4pm
High Value Special Sale 10am - 4pm
(weather permitting)

Sunday December 11
 All Rooms 11am - 4pm

4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto
NE corner of the Cubberley Community Center
(650) 213-8755

www.fopal.org

Maps and Directions
More information on the sales
Donate your used books, DVDs, &c
 
ALL NET PROCEEDS GO TO HELP PALO ALTO LIBRARIES

Marty's (Main) Room
In our Main Room, prices are way below what used book stores charge. Hardcover books start at $3.00 and softcover books start at only $2.00.

NO NUMBERS WILL BE ISSUED FOR NON-MEMBERS FOR THIS SALE. IF YOU ARE NOT A FOPAL MEMBER SIMPLY SHOW UP AT 11AM.

Please note that due to crowding during the first two hours of the Book Sale, no strollers, rolling carts, etc. can be brought into the Main Room. This is for the safety of shoppers and volunteers alike. By 12:30 or so, the crowd thins out and shoppers are welcome to bring these items into the sale.

Children's Book Sale
The Children's Room is located in the portable next to the soccer field near Greendell School. It is entirely filled with children's books and toys. You'll find picture books, school age fiction and non-fiction, award winners, non-English titles, CDs and DVDs, and books for parents and teachers, most for 50 cents or $1. Strollers are welcome in the Children's Room at any time.

Bargain Books in H-2
The Bargain Room is located in Rooms H-2 and H-3 of the Cubberley main campus, between Marty's Room and Middlefield Road. On Saturday, paperbacks are 50 cents, hardcovers are $1, and children's books are 50 cents each. The room also contains many records, CDs, and DVDs at $1 each. On Sunday, the room opens at 11 am and all prices are half off. Or, save even more on Sunday by buying green FOPAL reusable bags from us for $2/ea (or bring your own grocery-size reusable bag) and stuffing them with any items in the room for $5/bag. Fill four bags at $5/bag and fill a fifth bag FREE! (We no longer receive sufficient used paper grocery bags along with donations for this purpose.)

 
FOPAL High Value Special Book Sale

To celebrate the holidays and add a special event to our Members' Early sale on Saturday December 10th, 2022, from 10am to 4pm FOPAL will be making available a selection of its high value books (usually sold online) reduced from up to $30 to the bargain price of $10.

Book categories include:
Art
Children
Computers
Fiction, drama, poetry
Foreign languages
History
Medicine/health
Misc. nonfiction
Nature
Science
Travel
Vintage

 
FOPAL High Value Special Ephemera Sale

Browse through our amazing collection of vintage ephemera at our December parking lot sale! Expect discounts of 50%-75% or more from comparable prices on the internet. For sale are both book and non-book items – vintage brochures, pamphlets, chap books, spiral-bound special publications, self-published oddities, magazines and military maps - you name it!

All ephemera will be individually priced.

Examples:

Early computer manuals: HP-41C, PPC Rom User's Manual, etc.

"Aces Back -to -Back"- A Guide to the Grateful Dead-1992 - Signed

From Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band -1967 -Three original items cut from the Peter Blake collage insert.

"Orient-Pacific Guide 1901"- Full of fold outs, "Australasia" map, Southern Signs of the Zodiac, several color pages of flags, lovely Art Nouveau ads.

Radio and Railway magazine and manuals from the 1930s on.

Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battlefields (1914-1918) – Verdun, etc.

U.S. Military Publications from WW1, WW2 to Viet Nam, including "History of the 42nd Rainbow Division" 1919.

Rare political pamphlets from the 1930s by Lenin, Molotov and others.

I.W.W. Union pamphlets, song books, etc.

Workers Party of America, Communism in America- 1930s

Maps- WWII military, 1945 Korea "Red" China, etc.

Vintage books with beautiful illustrations, arresting covers, etc.

From 1748, a French play "La Bacha de Smirne, Comedie en un Acte et en Prose" – beautiful clean hand-made paper in a delicate blue cover.

We expect there will be around 1,500 items available for this special event.

 
Sales Information

Location:
Outside the Children's Room in the south west corner of the Cubberley Community Center [CCC]
Time:
Saturday, December 10th, 2022, 10am to 4pm

 
Weather

If bad weather is forecast the High Value Sale will be postponed until Saturday, January 14, 2023 and will be held indoors at a reserved room at CCC.

 
Members'-Early Sale

Saturday is FOPAL's special biannual Members' Early sale in our Main Sale Room!!

Life Members and Sponsors may enter at 9 am and purchase up to 100 items. All other members enter at 10 am and can purchase up to 25 items.

Membership can be renewed or signed up for at the Sale.

General public may enter at 11 am

Weather conditions will not affect the Members' Early Sale.

For more information please go to www.FOPAL.org

 
Donations

We have made it past Drop-off Donations 3.0 and have returned to accepting donations without the need to make an appointment.

HOWEVER....

We are closed for donations from Sunday December 4 through Sunday December 11 to prepare the Main Room for this weekend's sale. Please hold your donations until Monday December 12.

Please read our donation guidelines before you bring materials to us.

All that said, our normal hours for drop-off donations are Monday through Saturday, 3pm-5pm. (But not the week before the sale.)

 
Suggestions?

We're always eager to hear your suggestions for ways to improve our book sale. Please email us at suggestions@friendspaloaltolib.org.

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